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An increasingly organized underground network is providing food and medicine to people trapped by the offensive of President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Highway crashes are the largest cause of fatalities in the oil industry, partly because of safety exemptions that allow truckers to work longer hours than other drivers.
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper outpost in Britain, and five others were charge with conspiring to pervert the course of justice in the case.
A clinical trial of Crenezumab will focus largely on members of a Colombian family who are genetically destined to develop the disease but who do not yet have any symptoms.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest creation, Admiral General Aladeen, is the star of the new comedy “The Dictator.”
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 2012, covering May 15, 2012.
Jack White
Adele
Lionel Richie
One Direction
Lee Brice
2012Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and essayist (born 1928)[†]
Carlos Fuentes Macías was a Mexican novelist and essayist. Among his works are The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962), Aura (1962), Terra Nostra (1975), The Old Gringo (1985) and Christopher Unborn (1987). In his obituary, The New York Times described Fuentes as "one of the most admired writers in the Spanish-speaking world" and an important influence on the Latin American Boom, the "explosion of Latin American literature in the 1960s and '70s", while The Guardian called him "Mexico's most celebrated novelist". His many literary honors include the Miguel de Cervantes Prize as well as Mexico's highest award, the Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor (1999). He was often named as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, though he never won.
2012Arno Lustiger, German historian and author (born 1924)[†]
Arno Lustiger was a German historian and author of Jewish origin. Lustiger made significant contributions to research and document the history of Jewish resistance under Nazi rule.
2012Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1918)[†]
Zakaria Mohieddin was an Egyptian military officer, politician, prime minister of Egypt and head of the first Intelligence body in Egypt, the Egyptian General Intelligence Directorate.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]